Job Title: Commercial Manager
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74503
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Commercial Manager at our Ashton Vale, Bristol site.
Effectors is a critical and growing part of the Marine sector within the Babcock International Group, working across a range of exciting design, manufacture and support projects for various Sub-Surface and Surface platforms both in the UK and Internationally. The Effectors business unit employs approximately 600 people with the largest sites based in Bristol, Plymouth and Leicester.
The Role
As a Commercial Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Joining our Marine sector, a critical and growing part of our business; specifically, you’ll be working within our Effectors business unit to drive the business and Dreadnought contract forward.
Day-to-day, you’ll be providing contract management and governance support to project team; as well as undertaking negotiations and pricing activities in support of organic or new growth opportunities:
- Create and execute commercial strategies to achieve success.
- Be a mentor and guide to other commercial staff sharing best practice, advise and recommendations to commercial scenarios.
- Act as the commercial point of contact for all queries from the project team.
- Lead a team of commercial staff across a range of Support contracts.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires regular travel to our Ashton Vale, Bristol site on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.
Essential Experience of the Commercial Manager:
- Understanding of single source contracts is highly desirable but, not required.
- Commercially driven, as well as possessing the ability to identify commercial innovation with a good business awareness of customers and competitors.
- Experience in the creation of proposals whether as organic growth or for new opportunities.
- Demonstratable experience of managing and understanding contracts ideally, in the defence sector but, this is not essential.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines critical to our customer’s mission.
Qualifications for the Commercial Manager:
- Ideally, you will hold a recognised relevant professional qualification (Membership of Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS), International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM), Post Graduate Certificate in Commercial Management (PGCCM)) or equivalent / similar but, this is not essential.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing Date: 24/08/2026
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